Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't think, just do.

- Horton, Reiko

Best Quotes about Action

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aikman, Leo

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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

Proverb, German

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

13.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

15.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

22.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

24.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Proverb, French

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

32.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

36.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.