Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Sher, Barbara

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Bible

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Einstein, Albert

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

12.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

15.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

17.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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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

34.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

42.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

43.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

44.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

45.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

46.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin