Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, American

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Bible

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Saunders

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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