Motivational Quotes

Action

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Action

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Pauling, Linus

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Act, don't react!

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only way to start is to start.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

33.

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

Proverb, French

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Ovid

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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

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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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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Aristotle

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.