Motivational Quotes

Action

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George