Motivational Quotes

Action

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crow, Trammell

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Schopenhauer, 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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Lu Xun

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Confucius

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shirley, James

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.