Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

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

Pauling, Linus

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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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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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee