Motivational Quotes

Action

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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 is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

41.

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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Aurelius, Marcus