Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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

12.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

15.

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

Courteline, Georges

16.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

18.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Picasso, Pablo

25.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

27.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

28.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

29.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

31.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

32.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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.

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

46.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

47.

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

Green, Dennis

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony