Motivational Quotes

Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Ovid

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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