Motivational Quotes

Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aristotle

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

James, William

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.