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

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Warren

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

13.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

17.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

18.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

19.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

21.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

22.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Viscott, David

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Marley, Bob

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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

41.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

42.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

43.

The only way to start is to start.

44.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

45.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun