Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

James, William

14.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

15.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

17.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Levi, Peter

20.

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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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

23.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

24.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

25.

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

Gerstner, Lou

26.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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

28.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

29.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

31.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

32.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

33.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

35.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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

38.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

43.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

44.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

45.

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

Maharshi, Ramana