Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Saying, Zen

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Levin, James

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

24.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

25.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

30.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

31.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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The only way to start is to start.

33.

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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

35.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

40.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

48.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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