Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Company, Lanes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Picasso, Pablo

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.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Company, Lanes

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton