Motivational Quotes

Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Bible

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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'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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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

22.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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.

26.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

33.

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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Ovid

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

44.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German