Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Action

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

12.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

19.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

20.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

24.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

30.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Green, Dennis

34.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

35.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

36.

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

Buffett, Warren

37.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Sandburg, Carl

40.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

41.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

42.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Company, Lanes

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

Holtz, Lou

47.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.