Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

The only way to start is to start.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lord, Shirley

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lowenstein, John

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

James, William

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Aristotle

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.