Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

James, William

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Act, don't react!

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The only way to start is to start.

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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.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riley, Pat

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Milne, A. A.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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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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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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

Macdonald, George

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.