Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aristotle

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

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

Graffiti

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Aristotle

14.

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

Roger, John

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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

16.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

17.

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

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

20.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Shirley, James

23.

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

Company, Lanes

24.

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

25.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

26.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

31.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

32.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

34.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

35.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

38.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

40.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Wordsworth, William

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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.