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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eliot, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ennius, Quintus

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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Action is character.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

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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.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Levi, Peter

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.