Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Warford, Rita

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Evans, Richard L.