Motivational Quotes

Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Eliot, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Liz

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Carrel, Alexis

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Mother Teresa

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aristotle

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.