Motivational Quotes

Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

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.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Bible

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The only way to start is to start.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Aristotle

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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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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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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Act, don't react!

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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

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.