Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Einstein, Albert

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

13.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

26.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Act, don't react!

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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One of the marks of a 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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.