Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Best Quotes about Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Lord, Shirley

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

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

Riley, Pat

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Shirley, James

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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