Motivational Quotes

Action

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

- Levi, Peter

Best Quotes about Action

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

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

11.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

14.

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

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Crow, Trammell

20.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

21.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

25.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

27.

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

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

30.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

33.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

34.

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

Courteline, Georges

35.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

36.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

37.

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

Ovid

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

39.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

42.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Picasso, Pablo

45.

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

Macdonald, George

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert