Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holtz, Lou

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Lincoln, Abraham

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

19.

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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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

29.

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

Saying, Zen

30.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

31.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Levin, James

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Rohn, Jim

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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