Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Mother Teresa

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

James, William

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carrel, Alexis

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.