Motivational Quotes

Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

The only way to start is to start.

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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

11.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

12.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Action is character.

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

19.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horace

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

34.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

35.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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

43.

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

Green, Dennis

44.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe