Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Plutarch

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

15.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

19.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Ennius, Quintus

23.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

24.

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

25.

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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

40.

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

Proverb, Mexican

41.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Act, don't react!

46.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.