Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

11.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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

Shakespeare, William

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Bible

29.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.