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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

The only way to start is to start.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

19.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

28.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Bible

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, French

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Milne, A. A.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon