Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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 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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Howells, William Dean

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.