Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

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

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Italian

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Eliot, George

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, English

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.