Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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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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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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Milne, A. A.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Quarles, Francis