Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Ennius, Quintus

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Act, don't react!

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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

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

James, William

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

30.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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