Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Proverb, Italian

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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 road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre