Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Irish

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Rohn, Jim

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shirley, James

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

22.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

23.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Auerbach, Red

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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

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

Horace

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Aristotle

42.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Company, Lanes

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.