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

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

James, William

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

12.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Warford, Rita

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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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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

24.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

25.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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.

27.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

28.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

30.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

33.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

34.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

35.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

36.

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

Shirley, James

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

39.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

40.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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