Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Proverb, Chinese

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Smiles, Samuel

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

17.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Bible

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

Liter, James

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Lu Xun

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Mann, Horace

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Horace

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

40.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Hasselhoff, David

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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