Motivational Quotes

Action

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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Best Quotes about Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Proverb, American

29.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.