Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Mann, Horace

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.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Grant, Heber J.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Horace

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami