Motivational Quotes

Action

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

- Malraux, Andre

Best Quotes about Action

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

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

James, William

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

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

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

25.

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

Crow, Trammell

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Shakespeare, William