Motivational Quotes

Action

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Action

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Clarke, James Freeman

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

13.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

14.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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

16.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

17.

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

18.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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

24.

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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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

29.

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

Company, Lanes

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

32.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

33.

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

Horace

34.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

35.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One of the marks of a 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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The only way to start is to start.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

42.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

43.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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! 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 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