Motivational Quotes

Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Levi, Peter

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Aikman, Leo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Action is character.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He who considers too much will perform little.