Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mother Teresa

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

11.

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

James, William

12.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

13.

Action is character.

14.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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

16.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

18.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

22.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

25.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

30.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

31.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

32.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

33.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

34.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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

39.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

48.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English