Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Auerbach, Red

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Adams, Charles Francis

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Green, Dennis

44.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act, don't react!

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Iacocca, Lee