Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Cass, Lewis

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

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

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Holtz, Lou

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Smith, Liz

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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