Motivational Quotes

Action

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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

Bible

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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

42.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.