Motivational Quotes

Action

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Best Quotes about Action

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Holtz, Lou

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

14.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Bible

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord, Shirley

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Mother Teresa

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Irish

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle