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

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.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

One of the marks of a 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

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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'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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Saying, Zen

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Act, don't react!

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Ennius, Quintus

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.