Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ennius, Quintus

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Curcio, Joan L.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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.

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

Proverb, American

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul