Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bergson, Henri L.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Mexican

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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 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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Levi, Peter

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African