Motivational Quotes

Action

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shirley, James

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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

32.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Saying, Zen

39.

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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.