Motivational Quotes

Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

Mann, Horace

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Eliot, George

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

James, William

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is character.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Act, don't react!

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.