Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Aurelius, Marcus

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

James, William

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Holtz, Lou

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.