Motivational Quotes

Action

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

- Batt, Al

Best Quotes about Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Levi, Peter

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cass, Lewis

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

James, William

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.