Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Viscott, David

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

Holtz, Lou

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Cass, Lewis

10.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Warford, Rita

14.

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

15.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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

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

Riley, Pat

18.

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

Shirley, James

19.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Arendt, Hannah

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

24.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

25.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

26.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

27.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

28.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

29.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Hazlitt, William

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

34.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

35.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

36.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

37.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The only way to start is to start.

40.

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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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

44.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

45.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

46.

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

Saunders

47.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

48.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.