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

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Arendt, Hannah

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, American

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bowkett, Chris

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

Saying, Zen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Cass, Lewis

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston