Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lu Xun

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Smith, Liz

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

James, William

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Rohn, Jim

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Action is character.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

James, William

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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