Motivational Quotes

Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about Action

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

Batt, Al

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

Marley, Bob

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Viscott, David

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

28.

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

Saying, Zen

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.