Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

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

Robbins, Anthony

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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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.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Sandburg, Carl

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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