Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Action

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Levi, Peter

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Ennius, Quintus

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Holtz, Lou

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Company, Lanes

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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