Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

13.

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

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arendt, Hannah

17.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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