Motivational Quotes

Action

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

12.

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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

23.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

24.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

29.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

30.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

James, William

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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'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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No rules for success will work if you don't.