Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The only way to start is to start.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace