Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marley, Bob

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.

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.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Roger, John

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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