Motivational Quotes

Action

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

- Aikman, Leo

Best Quotes about Action

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

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

Saunders

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

13.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.