Motivational Quotes

Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

- Warford, Rita

Best Quotes about Action

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

17.

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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Hasselhoff, David

29.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Action is character.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Company, Lanes

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Clarke, James Freeman