Motivational Quotes

Action

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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.

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.

Action is character.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Viscott, David

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Proverb, American

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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 is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Company, Lanes

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One of the marks of a 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