Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Levi, Peter

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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Proverb, French

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ovid

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.