Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

James, William

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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