Motivational Quotes

Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Plutarch

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

Carrel, Alexis

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Horace

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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 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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Roger, John

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Action is character.

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.