Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Action

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Graffiti

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ovid

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proverb

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Bible

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Sher, Barbara

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Italian

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Sandburg, Carl