Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Auerbach, Red

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa