Motivational Quotes

Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Action

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

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.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Wordsworth, William

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

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Action is character.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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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

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Viscott, David

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.