Motivational Quotes

Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Bible

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

Saunders

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Viscott, David

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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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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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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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

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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

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Cervantes, Miguel De