Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Action

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

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Ross, Percy

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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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

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Macdonald, George

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mother Teresa

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon