Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Franklin, Benjamin

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saying, Zen

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William