Motivational Quotes

Action

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Holtz, Lou

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

14.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

21.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Aristotle

44.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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

46.

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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.