Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Action

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

12.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

14.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Action is character.

30.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

James, William

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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