Motivational Quotes

Action

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Troward, Thomas

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Aristotle

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ennius, Quintus

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

12.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galsworthy, John

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

32.

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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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

38.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

43.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Lu Xun

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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

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell