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

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

Bible

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Einstein, Albert

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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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

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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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.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, don't react!

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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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

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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.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Action is character.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.