Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Levin, James

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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 was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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.

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