Motivational Quotes

Action

Action expresses priorities.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Action

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

James, William

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Lord, Shirley

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, American

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene