Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Lord, Shirley

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Troward, Thomas

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Action is character.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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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 deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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.

Aikman, Leo

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.