Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Gerstner, Lou

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Ovid

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

Saying, Zen

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De