Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Pancoast, Mal

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marley, Bob

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Warford, Rita

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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 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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.