Motivational Quotes

Action

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Howells, William Dean

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

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Graffiti

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

Holtz, Lou

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action is character.

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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

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Liter, James

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.