Motivational Quotes

Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Company, Lanes

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Greene, Robert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert