Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Courteline, Georges

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Horace

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wanamaker, John

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Proverb, French

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Macdonald, George

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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

35.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami