Motivational Quotes

Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

James, William

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Pilgrim, Peace