Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Graffiti

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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One of the marks of a 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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

James, William

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Arendt, Hannah

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement