Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Einstein, Albert

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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

11.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Smith, Liz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wilde, Oscar