Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb, Chinese

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

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

Shirley, James

10.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

17.

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

Proverb, American

18.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

21.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

25.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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

27.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

28.

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

Levi, Peter

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

31.

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.

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

34.

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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

40.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

41.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

42.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

49.

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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally