Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Proverb, American

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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 only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

16.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

28.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

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

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

40.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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

45.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.