Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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

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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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

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Action is character.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Ovid

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Marley, Bob

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

Holtz, Lou

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo