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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Horace

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

Mencken, H. L.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert