Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Robbins, Anthony

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Company, Lanes

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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'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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Evans, Richard L.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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