Motivational Quotes

Action

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Act, don't react!

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb, German

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.