Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Confucius

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Riley, Pat

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wordsworth, William

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ovid

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

40.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Bevan, Aneurin