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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Viscott, David

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Holtz, Lou

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Buffett, Warren

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Warford, Rita

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.