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

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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

10.

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

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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

12.

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

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

Green, Dennis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Fichte, Johann G.

19.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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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 is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Warford, Rita

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

42.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

43.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

44.

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Irish

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell