Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Do it now. Then it's done.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Cass, Lewis

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Levin, James

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Ovid

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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 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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Liter, James

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

Hasselhoff, David

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Act, don't react!

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph