Motivational Quotes

Action

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

- Tarentum, Leonidas of

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Buffett, Warren

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Carrel, Alexis

19.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

20.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

21.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

23.

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

24.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

25.

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

26.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

28.

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

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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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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

31.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

33.

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

34.

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

Liter, James

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Pauling, Linus

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

39.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

40.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

42.

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

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

44.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

45.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

46.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is character.

48.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

49.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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