Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ziglar, Zig

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Riley, Pat

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Act, don't react!

25.

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

Bible

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

33.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Horace

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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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Either move or be moved.