Motivational Quotes

Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Robbins, Anthony

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mann, Horace

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Action is character.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.