Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, German

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Saunders

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Action is character.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lord, Shirley

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

41.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat