Motivational Quotes

Action

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

Greene, Robert

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

20.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

28.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Lu Xun

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

35.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Shirley, James

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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

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

41.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

43.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crow, Trammell

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre