Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Proverb, American

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sher, Barbara

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo