Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

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

Lord, Shirley

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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'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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Graffiti

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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 am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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