Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Edwards, Edward

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

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

Mother Teresa

10.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

12.

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

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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One of the marks of a 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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Greene, Robert

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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.

43.

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

Bible

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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