Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Mother Teresa

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

41.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric