Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Galsworthy, John

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Smith, Liz

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

12.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Horace

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

21.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

39.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

40.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

46.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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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