Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

James, William

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Einstein, Albert

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Green, Dennis

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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