Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Green, Dennis

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick