Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't start at the top.

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Einstein, Albert

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Riley, Pat

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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston