Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Cass, Lewis

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lowenstein, John

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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