Motivational Quotes

Action

What you are will show in what you do.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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.

Act, don't react!

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Greene, Robert

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Lord, Shirley

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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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

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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.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Marley, Bob