Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wordsworth, William

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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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