Motivational Quotes

Action

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Jacobs, Joseph

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Lord, Shirley

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Italian

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Irish

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Company, Lanes

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Holtz, Lou

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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 sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.