Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Proverb, English

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Action is character.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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

Roger, John

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Smiles, Samuel

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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 greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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