Motivational Quotes

Action

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

- Aikman, Leo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roger, John

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Troward, Thomas

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Liter, James

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marley, Bob

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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 act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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