Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ovid

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Horace

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Viscott, David

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Macdonald, George

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.