Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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The only way to start is to start.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

35.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

37.

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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

42.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

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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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

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James