Motivational Quotes

Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, English

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lowenstein, John

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.