Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Howells, William Dean

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

James, William

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Mother Teresa

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

Batt, Al

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John