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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Roger, John

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Ovid

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

James, William

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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Vivekananda, Swami

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel