Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Warford, Rita

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Holtz, Lou

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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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

29.

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

Batt, Al

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

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

36.

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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

41.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

42.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Green, Dennis