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

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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