Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

- David, Benjamin O.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shakespeare, William

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hubbard, Kin

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wilde, Oscar

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Crow, Trammell

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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