Motivational Quotes

Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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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

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

32.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The only way to start is to start.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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