Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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.

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

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

Bible

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Angelou, Maya

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Action is character.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North