Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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 accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lu Xun

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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Smith, Liz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sher, Barbara

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.