Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Mother Teresa

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Shakespeare, William

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

34.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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