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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carrel, Alexis

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Saunders

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Act, don't react!

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

Buffett, Warren

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Levin, James

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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

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek