Motivational Quotes

Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

- Curcio, Joan L.

Best Quotes about Action

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Ziglar, Zig

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Sher, Barbara

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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 successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Bible

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Ross, Percy

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.