Motivational Quotes

Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

- Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Pauling, Linus

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Picasso, Pablo

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, don't react!

31.

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

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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