Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Macdonald, George

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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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'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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

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

45.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson