Motivational Quotes

Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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 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 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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

James, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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