Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bevan, Aneurin

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

28.

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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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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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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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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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Lord, Shirley

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Action is character.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, American