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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

10.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

11.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

17.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

19.

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 person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

24.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

25.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

30.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

31.

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

Gide, Andre

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Graffiti

34.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

35.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

Company, Lanes

42.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is character.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar