Motivational Quotes

Action

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

- Gramsci, Antonio

Best Quotes about Action

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Aikman, Leo

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Green, Dennis

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Plutarch

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Rohn, Jim

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana