Motivational Quotes

Action

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Plutarch

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

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

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

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

Galsworthy, John

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

28.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Aristotle

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many are called but few get up.