Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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Act, don't react!

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis