Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Einstein, Albert

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Shirley, James

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert