Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Crow, Trammell

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut