Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Iacocca, Lee

The only way to start is to start.

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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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

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Lu Xun

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William