Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

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

South, Bishop Robert

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

Holcomb, John H.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Riley, Pat

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Cass, Lewis

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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