Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Roger, John

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Action is character.

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.