Motivational Quotes

Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Levin, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Company, Lanes

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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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Auerbach, Red

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

30.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Grant, Heber J.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Proverb, German

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert