Motivational Quotes

Action

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

18.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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