Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Be both the gardener and the rose.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Action is character.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Eliot, George

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

James, William

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

James, William

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Horace

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Holtz, Lou