Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

10.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

11.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Macdonald, George

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Company, Lanes

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

37.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John