Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Action

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

10.

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

Hasselhoff, David

11.

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

12.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

13.

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

14.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

22.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

32.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Buffett, Warren

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

42.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.