Motivational Quotes

Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

- Wattles, Wallace D.

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Aristotle

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

11.

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

Confucius

12.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

30.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

31.

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

32.

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

Fichte, Johann 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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lu Xun

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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

45.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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 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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Proverb, Irish

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.