Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Action is character.

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

James, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The only way to start is to start.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Robbins, Anthony

42.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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 become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas