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

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

James, William

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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 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

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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