Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Mother Teresa

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Liter, James

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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