Motivational Quotes

Action

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Quarles, Francis

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Holtz, Lou

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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