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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Hasselhoff, David

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Ennius, Quintus

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Cass, Lewis

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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