Motivational Quotes

Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Liter, James

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Act, don't react!

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Arendt, Hannah

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas