Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Action is character.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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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

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lord, Shirley

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

James, William

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Shakespeare, William