Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Riley, Pat

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

21.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Smith, Liz

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Ovid

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Saying, Zen

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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

35.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

41.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.