Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Action

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Evans, Richard L.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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One of the marks of a 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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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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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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

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Cass, Lewis

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Marley, Bob

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

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

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma