Motivational Quotes

Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mother Teresa

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

The only way to start is to start.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Company, Lanes

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Action is character.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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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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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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