Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Liz

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Action is character.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Bible

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Shirley, James

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Dyer, Wayne

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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