Motivational Quotes

Action

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Action

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Aikman, Leo

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

11.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Buffett, Warren

13.

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

14.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

15.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

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.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

25.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

26.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

27.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

29.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Ennius, Quintus

34.

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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

39.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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