Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Action

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

The only way to start is to start.

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

Auerbach, Red

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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 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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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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

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Plutarch

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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