Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Roger, John

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Wanamaker, John

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mother Teresa

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

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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.