Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Warford, Rita

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Aristotle

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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

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

Courteline, Georges

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holtz, Lou

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only way to start is to start.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.