Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

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

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Holtz, Lou

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John