Motivational Quotes

Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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

11.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

13.

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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

18.

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

Pancoast, Mal

19.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

21.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

23.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

24.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

25.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

26.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

28.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

29.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lowenstein, John

31.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

32.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

33.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

34.

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.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

42.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

43.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The only way to start is to start.

46.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

47.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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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