Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hubbard, Kin

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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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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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Action is character.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Mann, Horace