Motivational Quotes

Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

11.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

17.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

18.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

19.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

20.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

25.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

29.

The only way to start is to start.

30.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

31.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

33.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

34.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor