Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Proverb, English

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Saunders

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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