Motivational Quotes

Action

To begin, begin.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Holcomb, John H.

Act, don't react!

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.