Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Warford, Rita

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Action is character.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald