Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Roger, John

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

10.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, French

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lu Xun

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

Batt, Al

50.

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