Motivational Quotes

Action

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Troward, Thomas

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Bible

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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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

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Saying, Zen

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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