Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Graffiti

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Lu Xun

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Levi, Peter

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.