Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holtz, Lou

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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 we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lord, Shirley

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Rohn, Jim

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Act, don't react!

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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