Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

40.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.