Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Shirley, James

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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