Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hubbard, Kin

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Marley, Bob

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Mother Teresa

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

13.

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

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rohn, Jim

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

Bible

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

23.

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

Bible

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

28.

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

29.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

30.

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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

32.

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do it now. Then it's done.

37.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Shakespeare, William

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.