Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

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

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Horace

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Auerbach, Red

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Whitehead, Alfred North