Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Riley, Pat

Action is character.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Rogers, Will

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Proverb

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African