Motivational Quotes

Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

- Jacobs, Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Eliot, George

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Liter, James

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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

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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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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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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

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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 well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Roger, John

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Ennius, Quintus

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Macdonald, George

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

James, William

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Warford, Rita

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Levi, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.