Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

34.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.