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

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.

The only way to start is to start.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Greene, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Shirley, James

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North