Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Auerbach, Red

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Company, Lanes

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Levi, Peter

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saunders

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

Iacocca, Lee

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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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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One of the marks of a 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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Howells, William Dean

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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