Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lu Xun

Best Quotes about Action

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Green, Dennis

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Saunders

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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