Motivational Quotes

Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Howells, William Dean

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Proverb, Italian

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.