Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Levi, Peter

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Saying, Zen

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Mother Teresa

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

Confucius

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

39.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor