Motivational Quotes

Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Horace

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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.

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.