Motivational Quotes

Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Green, Dennis

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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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.