Motivational Quotes

Action

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Eliot, George

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Aristotle

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Irish

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

South, Bishop Robert

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Allow motion to equal emotion.