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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Lu Xun

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.