Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Action is character.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

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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

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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.