Motivational Quotes

Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Saying, Zen

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Green, Dennis

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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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

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Bible

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.