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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lu Xun

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Ovid

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crow, Trammell

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.