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

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

Rogers, Will

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Levin, James

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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

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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Carrel, Alexis

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony