Motivational Quotes

Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Greene, Robert

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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

11.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

12.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

13.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Levi, Peter

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Lord, Shirley

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

31.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Grant, Heber J.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

40.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

James, William

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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 greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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It is better to rust out than wear out.