Motivational Quotes

Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Liter, James

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.