Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerstner, Lou

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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One of the marks of a 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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Batt, Al

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.