Motivational Quotes

Action

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

- Rosen, Richard D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Einstein, Albert

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Act, don't react!

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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 was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross