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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Sandburg, Carl

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

12.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Levin, James

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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

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Shakespeare, William

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius