Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Sandburg, Carl

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Buffett, Warren

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wanamaker, John

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John