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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Macdonald, George

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Ovid

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

Company, Lanes

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Lu Xun

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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