Motivational Quotes

Action

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Macdonald, George

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord, Shirley

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William