Motivational Quotes

Action

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

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

Cass, Lewis

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

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

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

Aikman, Leo

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

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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

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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert