Motivational Quotes

Action

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Action

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

12.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plutarch

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

19.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Auerbach, Red

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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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

27.

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

Company, Lanes

28.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

33.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

34.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ennius, Quintus

38.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

40.

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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Holtz, Lou

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

44.

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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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.

46.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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