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

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.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

10.

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

Graffiti

11.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

12.

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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eliot, George

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

20.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

22.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

23.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

Action is character.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

37.

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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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One of the marks of a 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