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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mencken, H. L.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

33.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Quarles, Francis

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.