Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't think, just do.

- Horton, Reiko

Best Quotes about Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Roger, John

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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 end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saying, Zen

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Evans, Richard L.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.