Motivational Quotes

Action

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- Lord, Shirley

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

20.

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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Action is character.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Proverb, German

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Rohn, Jim

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan