Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Bible

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

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

11.

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

James, William

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Ovid

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

17.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

18.

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

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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.

34.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Proverb, Ibo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe