Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Ovid

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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 Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mother Teresa

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.