Motivational Quotes

Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Ziglar, Zig

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

11.

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

Marley, Bob

12.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

13.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

14.

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

James, William

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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

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

James, William

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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

27.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

42.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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One of the marks of a 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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese