Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Be both the gardener and the rose.

10.

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

Roger, John

11.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

15.

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

Greene, Robert

16.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

23.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

25.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

28.

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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

30.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

32.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

33.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

36.

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

Mother Teresa

37.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

38.

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

Courteline, Georges

39.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

'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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

43.

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

Troward, Thomas

44.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

46.

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