Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Italian

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Einstein, Albert

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

28.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cass, Lewis

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He who considers too much will perform little.