Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Proverb, Mexican

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Bible

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pauling, Linus

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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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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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.