Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Jacobs, Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Holtz, Lou

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Eliot, George

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

28.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Gide, Andre

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

Levi, Peter

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Hazlitt, William

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas