Motivational Quotes

Action

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Galsworthy, John

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Auerbach, Red

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lu Xun

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Ovid