Motivational Quotes

Action

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

- Vivekananda, Swami

Best Quotes about Action

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Courteline, Georges

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Action is character.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Horace

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.