Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saunders

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou