Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Shakespeare, William

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Smith, Liz

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

11.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Holtz, Lou

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

21.

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

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

23.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Lowenstein, John

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Roger, John

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.