Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Iacocca, Lee

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

28.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

29.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Saying, Zen

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich