Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Auerbach, Red

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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One of the marks of a 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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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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.