Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

10.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

11.

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

12.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

17.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Einstein, Albert

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

42.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

43.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

45.

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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.