Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Carrel, Alexis

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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 will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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