Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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 go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Mother Teresa

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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.

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Wanamaker, John

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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