Motivational Quotes

Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about 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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Cass, Lewis

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

40.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Act, don't react!

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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.

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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.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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