Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Letterman, Elmer G.

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Viscott, David

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Mother Teresa

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Plutarch

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat