Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Action is character.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Wilde, Oscar

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Rohn, Jim

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Howells, William Dean

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Saying, Zen

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.