Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

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

Marley, Bob

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Company, Lanes

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

22.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.