Motivational Quotes

Action

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rogers, Will

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

Plutarch

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

21.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

26.

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

27.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

33.

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

Horace

34.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

35.

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

Ovid

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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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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

39.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

40.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Proverb

43.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

44.

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

Proverb, Ibo

45.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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