Motivational Quotes

Action

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Action

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

10.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Crow, Trammell

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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

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

20.

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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

26.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

30.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bergson, Henri L.

35.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

40.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert