Motivational Quotes

Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

- Jacobs, Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Howells, William Dean

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Brown, Les

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Iacocca, Lee

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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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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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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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Riley, Pat