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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Smiles, Samuel

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Irish

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Action is character.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.