Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

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

Edwards, Edward

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hutcheson, Francis

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von