Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

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

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

22.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Saying, Zen

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

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Act, don't react!

28.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

29.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

30.

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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

32.

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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

36.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Upanishads, Veda

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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