Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Action

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

Macdonald, George

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Sandburg, Carl

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

10.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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

Proverb

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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

14.

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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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

25.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saunders

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Company, Lanes

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The only way to start is to start.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo