Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Riley, Pat

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lord, Shirley

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von