Motivational Quotes

Action

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

10.

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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Bible

15.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

16.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Ibo

18.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

19.

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

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

25.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marley, Bob

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

Lu Xun

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

35.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

40.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

41.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

42.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

43.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Saunders