Motivational Quotes

Action

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hasselhoff, David

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

James, William

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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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Cass, Lewis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Roger, John

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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