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

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

Adams, Charles Francis

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Holtz, Lou

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, Italian

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Act, don't react!

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Roger, John

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

Bible

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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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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