Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gerstner, Lou

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Auerbach, Red

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

12.

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

Lowenstein, John

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Irish

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

21.

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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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

25.

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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Liter, James

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William