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

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

Bible

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Action is character.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Greene, Robert

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

20.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

28.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

31.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Aikman, Leo

40.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Holcomb, John H.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

44.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

45.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

46.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Crow, Trammell

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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

50.

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