Motivational Quotes

Action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Auerbach, Red

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Howells, William Dean

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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

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Action is character.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe