Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Sher, Barbara

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Pauling, Linus

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Edwards, Edward

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

Aristotle

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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Action expresses priorities.