Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

10.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Proverb, English

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

21.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

22.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Saying, Zen

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

43.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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