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 action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

The only way to start is to start.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Bible

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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

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Action is character.

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

Aristotle

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.