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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

28.

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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

32.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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