Motivational Quotes

Action

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Greene, Robert

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Marley, Bob

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

James, William

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

Bible

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wanamaker, John

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou