Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

James, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Grant, Heber J.

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The only way to start is to start.

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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

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Galsworthy, John

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Holtz, Lou

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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 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