Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Proverb, French

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]