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 fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Aikman, Leo

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Lowenstein, John

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Greene, Robert

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

31.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Quarles, Francis

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Action is character.

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo