Motivational Quotes

Action

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Action

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Quarles, Francis

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

31.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Carlyle, Thomas