Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Action

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

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Levin, James

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Angelou, Maya

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Act, don't react!

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Crow, Trammell

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.