Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

43.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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.

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Act, don't react!

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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