Motivational Quotes

Action

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

- Byrhhe, Anne

Best Quotes about Action

The only way to start is to start.

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.

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

Shirley, James

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

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

10.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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

12.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

13.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

16.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

19.

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

Aristotle

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

21.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

23.

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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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

40.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

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

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver