Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Einstein, Albert

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Shirley, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Company, Lanes

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Riley, Pat

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.