Motivational Quotes

Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Warford, Rita

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

19.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lu Xun

32.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

43.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red