Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

Horace

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of