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

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

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

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Arendt, Hannah

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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