Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Act, don't react!

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

31.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

33.

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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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Shirley, James

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

40.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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