Motivational Quotes

Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

- Linall Jr. A. L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Do it now. Then it's done.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Riley, Pat

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sher, Barbara

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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