Motivational Quotes

Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

Best Quotes about Action

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

Green, Dennis

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Levi, Peter

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ross, Percy

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Proverb, Italian

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet