Motivational Quotes

Action

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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The only way to start is to start.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.