Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Action

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Act, don't react!

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Macdonald, George

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The only way to start is to start.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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