Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Gerstner, Lou

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

10.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

11.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

13.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

15.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

16.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

Milne, A. A.

28.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

32.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

35.

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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

37.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Jacobs, Joseph

39.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Aristotle

41.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

42.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

45.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

50.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted