Motivational Quotes

Action

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hill, Napoleon

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Plutarch

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Roger, John

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.