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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Company, Lanes

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

Quarles, Francis

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Iacocca, Lee

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aristotle

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Wordsworth, William

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.