Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Edwards, Edward

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Marley, Bob

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Wanamaker, John

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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 discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Smith, Liz

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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

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Mandino, Og

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Irish

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.