Motivational Quotes

Action

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Gerstner, Lou

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Hasselhoff, David

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The only way to start is to start.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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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Act, don't react!

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur