Motivational Quotes

Action

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Proverb

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Ovid

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

Saying, Zen

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean