Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

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

Proverb, Ibo

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

13.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

14.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

19.

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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

21.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

34.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

40.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

41.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

42.

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

James, William

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Confucius

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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