Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Clarke, James Freeman

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Horace

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act, don't react!

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph