Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Brown, Les

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mother Teresa

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Bible

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Act, don't react!

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

21.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French