Motivational Quotes

Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Crow, Trammell

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Riley, Pat

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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One of the marks of a 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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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