Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to make it happen.

- Greene, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Holtz, Lou

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Sher, Barbara

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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 truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck