Motivational Quotes

Action

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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.

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Clarke, James Freeman

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Shirley, James

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ennius, Quintus

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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