Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Action is character.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Roger, John