Motivational Quotes

Action

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

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

Proverb

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

Smith, Liz

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

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

12.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Lowenstein, John

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Pauling, Linus

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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 well begun is half ended.

Plato

27.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

30.

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

31.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

32.

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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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

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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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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

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Act, don't react!

38.

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

39.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

40.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

42.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

43.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.