Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Action

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

Batt, Al

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

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

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

James, William

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Liter, James

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.