Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

13.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

14.

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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

17.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Saunders

19.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

21.

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

Marley, Bob

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buffett, Warren

25.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

30.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

44.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Proverb, German

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, English