Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Holcomb, John H.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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 won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Roger, John

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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.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The best way to get something done is to begin.