Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Green, Dennis

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

35.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.