Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Action

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Eliot, George

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Riley, Pat

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Warford, Rita

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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The only way to start is to start.

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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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Carrel, Alexis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita