Motivational Quotes

Action

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

One of the marks of a 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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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 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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Grant, Heber J.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Graffiti

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.