Motivational Quotes

Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Ovid

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Sher, Barbara

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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.

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Plutarch

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Galsworthy, John

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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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard