Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Horace

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

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Auerbach, Red

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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