Motivational Quotes

Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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.

Malraux, Andre

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.