Motivational Quotes

Action

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saunders

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Crow, Trammell

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

43.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma