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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Action is character.

14.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Act, don't react!

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Saunders

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sher, Barbara

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana