Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Marley, Bob

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

12.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

13.

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

Bible

14.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

21.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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

Sher, Barbara

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Carrel, Alexis

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.