Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Horace

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Crow, Trammell

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Some will, some don't, so what!