Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Action

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aristotle

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

42.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.