Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Viscott, David

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Kin

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Letterman, Elmer G.