Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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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

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Marley, Bob

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Courteline, Georges

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben