Motivational Quotes

Action

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Action

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bible

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Mencken, H. L.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, American

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Warford, Rita

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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We will not know unless we begin.