Motivational Quotes

Action

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Sher, Barbara

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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.

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

Liter, James

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

Mann, Horace

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

10.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

12.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

13.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

14.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

15.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

17.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

18.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

24.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

25.

The only way to start is to start.

26.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

29.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

30.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

43.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

44.

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

Proverb, German

45.

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

Gerstner, Lou

46.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald