Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Einstein, Albert

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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.

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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