Motivational Quotes

Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Mann, Horace

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Ennius, Quintus

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Proverb, French

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.