Motivational Quotes

Action

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gerstner, Lou

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

33.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Horace

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

Aristotle

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Holtz, Lou

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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