Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hasselhoff, David

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Crow, Trammell

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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.

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Proverb, German

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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 didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Aristotle