Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Levi, Peter

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Ross, Percy

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Viscott, David

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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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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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Riley, Pat

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin