Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Shirley, James

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Eliot, George

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.