Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

30.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Buffett, Warren

33.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

39.

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

Auerbach, Red

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

41.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

45.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

46.

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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

48.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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