Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is character.

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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