Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Mother Teresa

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Confucius

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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