Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bible

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

30.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

31.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marley, Bob

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Viscott, David

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon