Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Grant, Heber J.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saunders

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Act, don't react!

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.