Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Auerbach, Red

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Warford, Rita

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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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

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

Crow, Trammell

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

37.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.