Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

James, William

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

Buffett, Warren

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

James, William

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Milea, Jinx

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Troward, Thomas

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

40.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

41.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio