Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Milne, A. A.

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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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying, Zen

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Action is character.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Lu Xun

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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