Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Evans, Richard L.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Smith, Sydney

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William