Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Grant, Heber J.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Iacocca, Lee

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Cass, Lewis

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The only way to start is to start.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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 journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Einstein, Albert

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Saying, Zen

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

Shakespeare, William

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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The best way to get something done is to begin.