Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

10.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Macdonald, George

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

Shirley, James

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

18.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

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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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

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Bible

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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