Motivational Quotes

Action

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Troward, Thomas

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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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

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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

James, William

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.