Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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 soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.