Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, English

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, Mexican

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Ovid

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Shirley, James

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Lord, Shirley

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Action expresses priorities.