Motivational Quotes

Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

Best Quotes about Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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

Company, Lanes

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

11.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

12.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

James, William

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

17.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

21.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Buffett, Warren

26.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

32.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

35.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Saying, Zen

41.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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

45.

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

Proverb, French

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Gide, Andre