Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Graffiti

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

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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

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Cass, Lewis

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Saying, Zen

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.