Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

19.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Gerstner, Lou

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Aikman, Leo

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What you are will show in what you do.