Motivational Quotes

Action

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

- Long, Haniel

Best Quotes about 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

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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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.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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 greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

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