Motivational Quotes

Action

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

- Malraux, Andre

Best Quotes about Action

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb, French

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Macdonald, George

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

37.

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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

43.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Ibo

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert