Motivational Quotes

Action

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

- Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

10.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

11.

Act, don't react!

12.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita