Motivational Quotes

Action

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

10.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

13.

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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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

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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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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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

24.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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.

27.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

28.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

29.

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

Bible

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

35.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.