Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't think, just do.

- Horton, Reiko

Best Quotes about Action

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Mexican

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bible

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Bible

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shirley, James

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Proverb, German

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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

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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