Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Levin, James

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

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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mother Teresa

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Hasselhoff, David

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Saying, Zen

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Action is character.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Macdonald, George