Motivational Quotes

Action

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Marley, Bob

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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