Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Do it now. Then it's done.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, German

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Company, Lanes

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lu Xun

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Saying, Zen

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Roger, John

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

James, William

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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