Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Proverb, French

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Gide, Andre

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, American

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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.

28.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, Irish

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von