Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

13.

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

14.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

15.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only way to start is to start.

24.

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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

26.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

27.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

30.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

31.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

32.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

33.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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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