Motivational Quotes

Action

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

- Company, Lanes

Best Quotes about Action

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ovid

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levi, Peter

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, American

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese