Motivational Quotes

Action

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

- Dhammapada

Best Quotes about Action

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Quarles, Francis

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Mencken, H. L.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

20.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Edwards, Edward

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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.