Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Company, Lanes

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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.

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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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.

21.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

23.

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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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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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

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Auerbach, Red

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Action is character.

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Horace

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.