Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Greene, Robert

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Cass, Lewis

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Shirley, James

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Courteline, Georges

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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

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John