Motivational Quotes

Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Action

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

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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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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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Buffett, Warren

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis