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

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Shirley, James

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Howells, William Dean

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

18.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Rogers, Will

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

Hubbard, Kin

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Pancoast, Mal

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

33.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Holtz, Lou

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.