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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Bible

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

18.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

James, William

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Marley, Bob

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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

27.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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

33.

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.

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Crow, Trammell

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Act, don't react!

44.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun