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

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

James, William

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

12.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

13.

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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

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

Evans, Richard L.

43.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ovid

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Auerbach, Red

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