Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

Galsworthy, John

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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

Graffiti

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Liter, James

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Levi, Peter

33.

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

34.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Crow, Trammell

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

46.

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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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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