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

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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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

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ovid

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Wanamaker, John

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Smith, Liz

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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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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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

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