Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Italian

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

10.

Action is character.

11.

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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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Act, don't react!

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Troward, Thomas

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

35.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, English

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish