Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Proverb, American

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Smith, Liz

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Ovid

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Horace

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Marley, Bob

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Aristotle

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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.