Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saying, Zen

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Aristotle

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

41.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou