Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edwards, Edward

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Balzac, Honore De

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Holtz, Lou

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

James, William

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Act, don't react!

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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