Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Marley, Bob

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

29.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

42.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Winning starts with beginning.