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

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Confucius

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The only way to start is to start.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

10.

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

11.

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

Saying, Zen

12.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

13.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

24.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

28.

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

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Green, Dennis

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

35.

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

Proverb, American

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

39.

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

46.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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