Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Lowenstein, John

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Aristotle

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

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Riley, Pat

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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