Motivational Quotes

Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Act, don't react!

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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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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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

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Crow, Trammell

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.