Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Proverb, French

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Act, don't react!

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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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 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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

17.

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

18.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert