Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

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

Aristotle

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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 for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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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 learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Green, Dennis

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar