Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

The only way to start is to start.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Mann, Horace

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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 words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo