Motivational Quotes

Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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.

Act, don't react!

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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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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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

32.

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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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Holtz, Lou

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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