Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Gerstner, Lou

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

James, William

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Holtz, Lou

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.