Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Company, Lanes

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Holtz, Lou

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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

Viscott, David

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus