Motivational Quotes

Action

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pauling, Linus

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Action is character.

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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 deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Shakespeare, William

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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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