Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Lu Xun

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

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

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eliot, George

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Einstein, Albert

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Wilde, Oscar

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Ibo

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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.

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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