Motivational Quotes

Action

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

12.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Saying, Zen

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

23.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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.

35.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

James, William

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.