Motivational Quotes

Action

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Eliot, George

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Milea, Jinx

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Graffiti

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Mother Teresa

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Smith, Liz

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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

38.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

39.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Evans, Richard L.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben