Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Maharshi, Ramana

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, American

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

Wanamaker, John

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

James, William

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Evans, Richard L.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

36.

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 makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.