Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Ovid

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

Carrel, Alexis

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Aristotle

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Bible

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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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Bible

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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