Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gerstner, Lou

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

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Eliot, George

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Curcio, Joan L.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

10.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

12.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

13.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

16.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

29.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

38.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

41.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

42.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Lord, Shirley

44.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Green, Dennis