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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

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.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

20.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

32.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

38.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hasselhoff, David

41.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

45.

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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Gerstner, Lou