Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Einstein, Albert

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cass, Lewis

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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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.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Marley, Bob

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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

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Allow motion to equal emotion.