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

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

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb

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

Lu Xun

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

Bible

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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

Levi, Peter

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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 best way to get something done is to begin.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony