Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Action

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Act, don't react!

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Wordsworth, William

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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