Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mencken, H. L.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Eliot, George

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John