Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Liter, James

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Lu Xun