Motivational Quotes

Action

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

- Liter, James

Best Quotes about Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

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

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Auerbach, Red

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Aikman, Leo

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Saunders

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Irish

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

34.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

40.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

43.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American