Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Shirley, James

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Einstein, Albert

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Action is character.

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Levin, James

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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

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

41.

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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