Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

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.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Macdonald, George

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

Proverb, German

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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17.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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28.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Saunders

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

38.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Lowenstein, John