Motivational Quotes

Action

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

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

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maharshi, Ramana

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ross, Percy

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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