Motivational Quotes

Action

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Proverb, English

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ross, Percy

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.