Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Crow, Trammell

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Cass, Lewis

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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 easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt