Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Horace

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

James, William

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Auerbach, Red

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Holcomb, John H.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Smith, Liz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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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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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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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hutcheson, Francis