Motivational Quotes

Action

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ovid

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

10.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

18.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

19.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

27.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

28.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Action is character.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Gaulle, Charles De