Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

13.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

20.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

21.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

23.

Action is character.

24.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

33.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maharshi, Ramana

41.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

42.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Do it now. Then it's done.

44.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

48.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon