Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Buffett, Warren

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Company, Lanes

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sher, Barbara

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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