Motivational Quotes

Action

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Warford, Rita

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Riley, Pat

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

12.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

17.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, 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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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

33.

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holtz, Lou

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

39.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.