Motivational Quotes

Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Action

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Mother Teresa

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The only way to start is to start.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.