Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Action is character.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Arendt, Hannah

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milne, A. A.

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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 only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Courteline, Georges

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

James, William

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Holtz, Lou

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul