Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Milne, A. A.

11.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

12.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Green, Dennis

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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

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

Ross, Percy

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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

39.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

42.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte