Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Action

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

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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

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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

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.