Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bowkett, Chris

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Mother Teresa

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lu Xun

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lord, Shirley

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich