Motivational Quotes

Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

13.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

17.

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

Roger, John

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

25.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo