Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Confucius

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Ovid

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