Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Best Quotes about Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Galsworthy, John

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Proverb, American

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Confucius

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Bible

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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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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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Proverb, French

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas