Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ennius, Quintus

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Quarles, Francis

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

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

11.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

12.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

16.

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

17.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

22.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The only way to start is to start.

25.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Riley, Pat

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

28.

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

Saying, Zen

29.

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

James, William

30.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

41.

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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo