Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

14.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

29.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mother Teresa

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

40.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.