Motivational Quotes

Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Confucius

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

Gide, Andre

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

Shakespeare, William

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Troward, Thomas

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Brown, Les

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rogers, Will

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

Holtz, Lou

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Riley, Pat

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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