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

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

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

James, William

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Horace

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic