Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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

Pauling, Linus

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Riley, Pat

Action is character.

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

29.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Proverb

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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