Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Plutarch

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Courteline, Georges

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Aristotle

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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.

16.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

17.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

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

Horace

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

20.

Action is character.

21.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

31.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

42.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Chinese