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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Action is character.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Horace

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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

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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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 not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Irish

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Warford, Rita

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Rohn, Jim

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Marley, Bob

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

Roger, John

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

42.

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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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.

Aikman, Leo

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat