Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Plutarch

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Greene, Robert

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Lord, Shirley

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Batt, Al

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Riley, Pat

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George