Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Action

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Heine, Heinrich

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

10.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

13.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

14.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

15.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

16.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

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

18.

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

Ennius, Quintus

19.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

22.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

23.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

25.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

29.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

30.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

31.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

32.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

33.

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

34.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

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

James, William

40.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

42.

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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Shirley, James

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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

49.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu