Motivational Quotes

Action

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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.

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

Bible

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Viscott, David

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Confucius

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Smith, Liz

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.