Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, American

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

14.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

19.

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

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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