Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

11.

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

Graffiti

12.

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

Proverb, German

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

19.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mother Teresa

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin