Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Lu Xun

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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

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Act, don't react!

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Plutarch

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.