Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Proverb, American

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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 only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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