Motivational Quotes

Action

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Greene, Robert

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Action is character.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Carrel, Alexis

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Angelou, Maya

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smiles, Samuel

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm