Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Galsworthy, John

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

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Action is character.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Cass, Lewis

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore