Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Shakespeare, William

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Company, Lanes

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Batt, Al

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

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Rohn, Jim

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Levin, James

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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The only way to start is to start.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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