Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

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

Smiles, Samuel

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Saunders

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Liter, James

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good things happen to those who hustle.