Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Saying, Zen

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

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Green, Dennis

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Action is character.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eliot, George