Motivational Quotes

Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gerstner, Lou

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Eliot, George

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

12.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Milne, A. A.

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

35.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

40.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

43.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Ovid

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Einstein, Albert