Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

James, William

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Saying, Zen

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Hasselhoff, David

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Shakespeare, William