Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Smith, Liz

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

43.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.