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

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

James, William

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Shirley, James

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Rohn, Jim

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Proverb, English

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

Edwards, Edward

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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

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Mother Teresa

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Proverb, Italian

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

James, William

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William