Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

11.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Croce, Benedetto

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

30.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

31.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Aristotle

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Act, don't react!

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul