Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

James, William

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Do it now. Then it's done.

27.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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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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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.