Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ross, Percy

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Einstein, Albert

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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 we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Company, Lanes

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.