Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

15.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Milne, A. A.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

24.

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

25.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lu Xun

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

32.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Bible

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

37.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Proverb, English

45.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

48.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

49.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb