Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Levin, James

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Italian

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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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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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.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Green, Dennis

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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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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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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Mother Teresa

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.