Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Allen, Loius A.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Act, don't react!

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Proverb, Irish

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, Ibo

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.