Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Marley, Bob

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Riley, Pat

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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.

46.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John