Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Einstein, Albert

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Act, don't react!

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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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