Motivational Quotes

Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

- Warford, Rita

Best Quotes about Action

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Liter, James

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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