Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lowenstein, John

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Bowkett, Chris

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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

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Roger, John

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

25.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

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

33.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.