Motivational Quotes

Action

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Saying, Zen

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One of the marks of a 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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Greene, Robert

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

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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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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Warford, Rita

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal