Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Curcio, Joan L.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Smiles, Samuel

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ross, Percy

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Action is character.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.