Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

10.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

12.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Holtz, Lou

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Do it now. Then it's done.

16.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

22.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

23.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

27.

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.

28.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

33.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Brown, Les

49.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur