Motivational Quotes

Action

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

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

Levin, James

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holtz, Lou

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Rohn, Jim

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.