Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Carnegie, Andrew

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Aikman, Leo

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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.

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

Proverb, French

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Confucius

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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