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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Galsworthy, John

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.