Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, American

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

Aikman, Leo

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

The only way to start is to start.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

James, William

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.