Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Levin, James

Best Quotes about Action

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Roger, John

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Edwards, Edward

12.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Gerstner, Lou

16.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Shakespeare, William

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

25.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

26.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

28.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

29.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

30.

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

Saying, Zen

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

34.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Gide, Andre

43.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

44.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

45.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

48.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

50.

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