Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Saying, Zen

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

13.

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

Riley, Pat

14.

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 soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

19.

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

Proverb, American

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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 shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

24.

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

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

29.

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

Pauling, Linus

30.

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

31.

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

Marley, Bob

32.

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

Sher, Barbara

33.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Macdonald, George

35.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

36.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

37.

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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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

44.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

46.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

47.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent