Motivational Quotes

Action

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Sandburg, Carl

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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

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

Smith, Liz

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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.