Motivational Quotes

Action

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Wilde, Oscar

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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 go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Smith, Liz

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Arendt, Hannah

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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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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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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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Ovid

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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