Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Italian

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Saying, Zen

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Howells, William Dean

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

22.

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

Batt, Al

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Irish

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

34.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Act, don't react!

43.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talk doesn't cook rice.