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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Act, don't react!

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Picasso, Pablo

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Action is character.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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