Motivational Quotes

Action

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

- Taylor, Russell C.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Mother Teresa

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Greene, Robert

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

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Levin, James

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

James, William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Act, don't react!

33.

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

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Plutarch

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Proverb, Irish

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

43.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

44.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Batt, Al

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.