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

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

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

11.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

13.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

14.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

17.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

19.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

26.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is character.

37.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

39.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

43.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

45.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Eliot, George

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe