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

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

Balzac, Honore De

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Green, Dennis

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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