Motivational Quotes

Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Einstein, Albert

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Holtz, Lou

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou