Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Bowkett, Chris

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Grant, Heber J.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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