Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lu Xun

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Smiles, Samuel

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

11.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

Shirley, James

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

James, William

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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.

41.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

44.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

45.

Do it now. Then it's done.

46.

Action is character.

47.

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

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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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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen