Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Mexican

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

19.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Troward, Thomas

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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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

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

Aristotle

32.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Bible

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

50.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.