Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

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

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

25.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Howells, William Dean

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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