Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saunders

10.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

11.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

13.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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

16.

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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

19.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

20.

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

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

Holtz, Lou

22.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

25.

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

26.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

27.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

28.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action is character.

36.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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

38.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

40.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Eliot, George

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Proverb, American

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.