Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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

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

Aristotle

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The only way to start is to start.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou