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

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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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

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

Marley, Bob

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Holtz, Lou

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Croce, Benedetto

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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