Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

James, William

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Proverb, Chinese

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mann, Horace

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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.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Action is character.

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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 is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

42.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.