Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Italian

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cass, Lewis

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

35.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

36.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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