Motivational Quotes

Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Action

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hubbard, Kin

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Action is character.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

James, William

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Einstein, Albert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont