Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

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

Proverb, English

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

30.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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I didn't think; I experimented.