Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Levi, Peter

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Warford, Rita

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Act, don't react!

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Courteline, Georges

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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Riley, Pat

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.