Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Riley, Pat

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Holcomb, John H.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

10.

Act, don't react!

11.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

13.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

14.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

15.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

17.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

18.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

22.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

24.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

James, William

27.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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