Motivational Quotes

Action

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Aristotle

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

Holtz, Lou

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Green, Dennis

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Auerbach, Red

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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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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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

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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