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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

10.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

11.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

Graffiti

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

16.

The only way to start is to start.

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Macdonald, George

28.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Shirley, James

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Bible

35.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

39.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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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

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Confucius

46.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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 is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas