Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Liz

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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

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Saunders

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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 shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Cass, Lewis

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan