Motivational Quotes

Action

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Grant, Heber J.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Carnegie, Andrew

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Holtz, Lou

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

11.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

13.

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

Roger, John

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

Saunders

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

32.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

33.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Pauling, Linus

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

44.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Bible

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.