Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

- Gerstner, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Greene, Robert

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Lord, Shirley

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 it now. Then it's done.

41.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag