Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Aristotle

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

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

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Aristotle

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

Fichte, Johann G.

11.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Viscott, David

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

18.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

25.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael