Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't think, just do.

- Horton, Reiko

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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

12.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

25.

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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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