Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

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

Marley, Bob

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dyer, Wayne

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Greene, Robert

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

13.

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

Gerstner, Lou

14.

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

Gide, Andre

15.

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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

Lu Xun

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Rogers, Will

30.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

36.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,