Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, German

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

20.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

30.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

46.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William