Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roger, John

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Confucius

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Saunders

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon