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

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Proverb, American

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lord, Shirley

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Buffett, Warren

25.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Irish

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.