Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Crow, Trammell

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Sher, Barbara

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Proverb

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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