Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Roger, John

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Company, Lanes

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

43.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

44.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao