Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Viscott, David

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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 the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Ziglar, Zig

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hasselhoff, David

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic