Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Milne, A. A.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Cass, Lewis

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Wanamaker, John

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.