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

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Mann, Horace

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Action is character.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Einstein, Albert

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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 are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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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