Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- Whitefield, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Roger, John

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Saunders

11.

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

Proverb, American

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

13.

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

Quarles, Francis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

22.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

23.

You will never win if you never begin.

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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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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

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Holtz, Lou

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De