Motivational Quotes

Action

Either move or be moved.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline