Motivational Quotes

Action

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.