Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Saunders

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

20.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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

28.

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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

35.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

43.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement