Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lowenstein, John

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Action is character.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The only way to start is to start.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mother Teresa

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Sher, Barbara

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Auerbach, Red

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Be both the gardener and the rose.