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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Einstein, Albert

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Riley, Pat

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Company, Lanes

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha