Motivational Quotes

Action

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Best Quotes about Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Riley, Pat

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wanamaker, John

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Levi, Peter

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Proverb

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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Holtz, Lou

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Marley, Bob