Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Grant, Heber J.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

10.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

11.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

12.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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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 good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

26.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

28.

Action is character.

29.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

33.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lu Xun

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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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.

45.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

46.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

50.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.