Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Mother Teresa

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis