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

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Ibo

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb, American

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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