Motivational Quotes

Action

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

- Nagarjuna, Siddha

Best Quotes about Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Clarke, James Freeman

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Quarles, Francis

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Smith, Liz

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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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.