Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aikman, Leo

Best Quotes about Action

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Lowenstein, John

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

James, William

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Carrel, Alexis

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Angelou, Maya

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.