Motivational Quotes

Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Aristotle

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

Smiles, Samuel

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, German

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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