Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Aristotle

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

11.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

14.

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

15.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

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

19.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

20.

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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Levin, James

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

40.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

41.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 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.

49.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert