Motivational Quotes

Action

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Auerbach, Red

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Lu Xun

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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

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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

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.