Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Action

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Horace

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Maharshi, Ramana

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Act, don't react!

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.