Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Viscott, David

10.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

Do it now. Then it's done.

12.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

13.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

16.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

21.

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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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.

27.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

28.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

37.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

42.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

43.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

44.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Proverb, American

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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 can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo