Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Batt, Al

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Horace

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

11.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Holtz, Lou

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

25.

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

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

29.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

30.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Green, Dennis

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

Saying, Zen

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish