Motivational Quotes

Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Proverb, American

Action is character.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Levi, Peter

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.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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