Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Auerbach, Red

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Act, don't react!

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Eliot, George

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John