Motivational Quotes

Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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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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'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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

James, William

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Act quickly, think slowly.