Motivational Quotes

Action

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Rohn, Jim

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Liter, James

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Proverb, Ibo

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.