Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Wanamaker, John

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Batt, Al

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

39.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

James, William