Motivational Quotes

Action

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

- Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holtz, Lou

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Marley, Bob

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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.

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.