Motivational Quotes

Action

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Robbins, Anthony

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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