Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lu Xun

Best Quotes about Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Shirley, James

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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.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Smiles, Samuel

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee