Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Aristotle

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

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Action is character.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

31.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

32.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

37.

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

Howells, William Dean

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

39.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.