Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Horace

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Courteline, Georges

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James