Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Irish

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

18.

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

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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