Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Action is character.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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