Motivational Quotes

Action

Action expresses priorities.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Shakespeare, William

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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 can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Horace

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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