Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Aristotle

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Liter, James

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

Ovid

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

11.

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Viscott, David

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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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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

Holcomb, John H.

19.

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

20.

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

27.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

30.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

39.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

42.

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

Marley, Bob

43.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda