Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Allen, Loius A.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Bible

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Wanamaker, John

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

40.

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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

44.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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.