Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Croce, Benedetto

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

12.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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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 odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Green, Dennis

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

Saying, Zen

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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.

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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

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus