Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

18.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Arendt, Hannah

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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One of the marks of a 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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Act, don't react!

39.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Horace

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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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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Aristotle

48.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David