Motivational Quotes

Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Croce, Benedetto

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

James, William

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Don't think, just do.