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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.

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

James, William

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.