Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't start at the top.

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

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

Ovid

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Action is character.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Batt, Al

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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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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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Green, Dennis

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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