Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Croce, Benedetto

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Crow, Trammell

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ennius, Quintus

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Green, Dennis

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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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

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

33.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Saunders

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De