Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Riley, Pat

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Shirley, James

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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

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The only way to start is to start.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.